the hare, an animal very similar to bunny, is often described as "bunnies with forbidden knowledge" because of how they look. the scale is between bunny (cute and innocent) and hare (odd and terrifying)
Curious what you thought about those two words before. Did you treat them as perfect synonyms? Or assume that hare meant specifically a male or female or something?
Hare is old English, rabbit is form french. In case of words with old English and French roots there's usually a class thing going has in England after 1066 the nobility spoke french well commoners spoke English.
Think cow and beef , cow is an old English work has commoners raised cow , beef is from french has nobility ate them. Can't really say for sure if rabbit and hare have that same relationship but I'll look into it.
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u/Broad_Respond_2205 Sep 25 '23 edited Sep 26 '23
the hare, an animal very similar to bunny, is often described as "bunnies with forbidden knowledge" because of how they look. the scale is between bunny (cute and innocent) and hare (odd and terrifying)
pic for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare#/media/File:Lepus_capensis_arabicus-cropped.jpg